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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
January 22, 2026 The Atlantic
Peer review has met its match.
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Is Panpsychism Just Snake Oil?
January 22, 2026 Psychology Today
On pseudophilosophy and meta-philosophy
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Habitable worlds may be far more common than thought
January 22, 2026 Jerusalem Post
Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.
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A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
January 22, 2026 New York Times
“It was hiding in plain sight all this time,” one researcher said.
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Geometry is an ‘Instruction Manual’ for Life
January 22, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists find evidence that embryo curvature serves as an instruction manual for coordinated cell division
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Solzhenitsyn and the Demon of Evil
January 22, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Peter Robinson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn in Conversation
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Repairing trust in science requires a more inclusive understanding of innovation
January 22, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6783
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News Update/Commentary
Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
January 22, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional efficiency limit set by Carnot nearly 200 years ago.
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The Flood Explains 18,000 Dinosaur Tracks in Bolivia
January 22, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains
January 21, 2026 New Scientist
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests something else is going on
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Building a Baby (Secrets of the Human Body, Episode 3)
January 21, 2026 Discovery Science
Human development requires extraordinary coordination, timing, and information from the very start. Cell differentiation and organ formation depend on plans and signals that are still poorly understood.
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The Nigerian Experiment
January 21, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Social Darwinism in Practice
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Scientists find extremely rapid evolution of new species after the end-cretaceous mass extinction
January 21, 2026 EurekAlert!
In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast
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Enormous freshwater reservoir may be big enough to supply NYC for 800 years
January 21, 2026 Live Science
An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, scientists are starting to understand when and how it formed.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
January 21, 2026 Nature, v.650, p.150-155
Vertebrate vision is mainly accommodated by a pair of lateral image-forming camera-type eyes and is supplemented in non-mammalian vertebrates by a dorsal pineal complex
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Hand stencils in Indonesian cave are world’s oldest known artworks
January 21, 2026 Nature
These findings provide insights into the movement and cultural lives of populations that contributed to the ancestry of Indigenous Australian and Papuan people.
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Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger
January 21, 2026 Nature
quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’ ... Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
January 21, 2026 Nature
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The biggest ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ yet
January 21, 2026 Nature
physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
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Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
January 21, 2026 Nature
The Afar depression in northeastern Ethiopia contains a rich palaeontological and archaeological record, which documents 6 million years of human evolution.
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An eye-popping discovery: early vertebrates had four eyes rather than two
January 21, 2026 Nature
Eyes on a face’s front or side enable a brain to perceive images. Fossil evidence suggests that two light-sensitive organs on top of ancient vertebrate heads generated images, too.
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A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia
January 21, 2026 Nature
Fossils reveal that at least four types of hominin, including Paranthropus, were present in northern Ethiopia between 3 million and 2.4 million years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
Life’s chemistry may begin in the cold darkness of space
January 21, 2026 Science Daily
The building blocks of life may be forming in deep space long before planets are born.
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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought
January 21, 2026 New Scientist
A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
January 21, 2026 Nature, v.650, p.652-656
Previously, secure Pleistocene dates were reported for figurative cave art and stencils of human hands in two areas in Indonesia -- karsts on the island of Sulawesi and a region of eastern Kalimantan, Borneo
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Ways Biologists Aim to Edit Animal and Plant Genes to Fight Diseases and Extinction
January 21, 2026 Smithsonian Magazine
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, despite attracting some critics
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Neanderthals took reusable toolkits with them on high-altitude treks through the Alps
January 21, 2026 phys.org
When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves.
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World’s oldest rock art found in Indonesia
January 21, 2026 CSIRO Publishing (Australia)
A hand stencil in an Indonesian cave was drawn at least 67,800 years ago, making it about 15,000 years older than the next oldest rock art in the world.
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Why Are Evolutionists Surprised at Animal Intelligence?
January 21, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A cow exhibits tool use. Whales teach. Dogs learn words. Darwinians gasp.
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New black hole discovery uncovers our failure to understand reality
January 21, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Einstein and the black role dragging around spacetime
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A New Theory Says Gravity May Come from Entropy
January 20, 2026 Popular Mechanics
Which Could Lead to a Unified Theory of Physics ... Mind=blown
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Another Mystery of How Childbirth Works Discovered
January 20, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As we learn more about the human body, its complexity becomes increasingly apparent
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Is Natural Selection a Substitute for Intelligence?
January 20, 2026 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
Using clear analogies and mathematical reasoning, the conversation addresses common claims about chance, natural processes, and the emergence of complex biological systems.
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The Neanderthal Problem That Scientists Don't Want To Discuss
January 20, 2026 Highly Compelling
This video examines the complex relationship between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. We explore the traditional view of Neanderthals as a separate species, considering how evidence from genetics and fossil impacts the concept of neanderthal interbreeding
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design
January 20, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Northern Plains Ethics Institute to host historian
January 20, 2026 North Dakota State University
presenting “Why Christianity is Good for Science” on Thursday, Feb. 19 from noon to 1 p.m. at the NDSU Memorial Union.
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As Greenland loses ice, global sea levels will rise -- and its own will fall
January 20, 2026 Science
The island is rebounding from ice melt so fast that scientists are rethinking how Earth’s interior works
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The problem with pretending quantum mechanics makes sense
January 19, 2026 Big Think
A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, physicists still argue about what the theory is really describing. Does the wave function represent something real, or just our knowledge? Why does “measurement” appear in the laws of nature at all?
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Book
The Human Body’s “Ultimate Engineering”
January 19, 2026 Science & Culture Today
New Book Available for Pre-Order Now | See Also Amazon
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What deep sea mud is revealing about giant earthquakes along the Pacific Coast
January 19, 2026 phys.org
Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often used as a historical record for reconstructing earthquake histories.
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Book
I Might Owe My Students an Apology About Josephus
January 19, 2026 The Gospel Coalition
Review: ‘Josephus and Jesus’ by T. C. Schmidt | See Also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
A 250-million-year-old fossil reveals the origins of mammal hearing
January 19, 2026 Science Daily
By modeling how sound moved through the skull of Thrinaxodon, a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor, researchers found it likely used an early eardrum to hear airborne sounds. This challenges the long-held ideas
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News Update/Commentary
The overlooked survival strategy that made us human
January 19, 2026 Science Daily
Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate last resort
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The most important second in the entire history of the universe
January 19, 2026 New Scientist
In the 13.8 billion years that our universe has been around, some moments stand out over others -- for the most exciting and impactful one, we have to go back to the very beginning
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Blog Post
The Philosophy of Intelligent Design
January 19, 2026
As clarified against the backdrop of Michael Levin's biological theorizing
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Ever watched a pet cow pick up a broom and scratch herself with it?
January 19, 2026 Live Science
A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself -- the first ever documented case of bovine tool use.
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Recent Discovery of a Strange Microbe Gives No Clues to Evolution
January 19, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Christian AI vs. Secular AI: Why Worldviews Matter in Technology
January 19, 2026 Natasha Crain
AI isn’t worldview neutral -- and that should deeply concern Christians. I talk with the co-founder of a Christian AI platform created as a biblical alternative to tools like ChatGPT, to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping the way we think
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How Common Sense Points to God (God Proofs, Ep. 3)
January 19, 2026 Discovery Science
Does common sense point to... God?!!! A short animated video inspired by the graphic novel The God Proofs: How Science Points to Your Creator
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Probing the Limits of Assembly Theory + An Invitation for Lee Cronin
January 19, 2026 James Tour
Assembly Theory -- claims about complexity and the origin of life, where the theory illuminates patterns and where it ultimately falls short as an explanation for life’s emergence